'sympathetic plants' Just looked it up - Hodgart uses it extensively - didn't register when I read it years ago. Lovely phrase; thanks for the heads-up. "You're so lucky to be over there!" Not the same in Ireland I'm afraid, which is pretty much ìn the same situation regarding walking as Britain was when MacColl wrote The Manchester Rambler' - desperately in need of a 'Mass Trespass'. Jim Carroll